How do you spell hypocrisy?. It is not hypocracy or hypocrasy or even hypocricy for that matter!

n., pl.-sies.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

An act or instance of such falseness.

[Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, play-acting, pretense, from Greek hupokrisis, from hupokrÄ«nesthai, to play a part, pretend : hupo-, hypo- + krÄ«nesthai, to explain, middle voice of krÄ«nein, to decide, judge.]